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Thread #9626   Message #62953
Posted By: Paul Slater (inactive)
14-Mar-99 - 05:45 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Emma Emma/Rolling down the Bay to Juliana
Subject: RE: words to 'Emma Emma'
This Halyard Shanty (Also called 'Down the Bay to Juliana') has been sung for many years by English Folkie, Roy Harris. This version taken from the singing of Johnny Collins on the CD 'Shanties and Songs of the Sea' issued by Grasmere No GRCD75.

Emma, Emma let me be Roll her down the bay to Juliana

It's Emma, Emma let me be

Them Windward girls they all love me

But now I'm bound away to sea

Them Windward girls are hard to beat

A-pullin' on your old main sheet

Why do them Judies love me so?

Because I don't tell all I know

It's Oh Miss Emma don't you cry

Goodbye me darlin' girl goodbye

In the morning we do sail away

Around the Horn a-chasing whale

It's Oh Miss Emma Fare you well

You'll always be me darlin' gal

Hope this is useful, Cheers, Paul